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With colder weather now here, outdoor playdates are not always possible. Why not consider having your next playdate at the Wilmington Memorial Library? Thanks to the generosity of the community through the Friends Annual Appeal, we have lots of new toys that encourage collaborative play.

Wilmington Wildcats and the Tewksbury Redmen have been facing each other on Thanksgiving morning for many years. Check out the Town Crier's 1976 pre game and post game coverage. A Big Win for the Wildcats!

Freegal is a great source of free music. However, if you're using the iPad app you could end up with music in that app that's not in your iTunes library. But fear not, we can help! All you need is your iPad, its USB cable, and another computer. Here's how

We regret to inform you that the Andrew Sisters Event scheduled for this Thursday (10/23) has been cancelled due to illness. We will try to reschedule it in the spring. We apologize for the inconvenience.

While it's not the same as an event, you can always request one of the consortium's books on them.

With the wacky weather we've been having lately, you may not have had a chance to check out famed New England foliage. But as a consolation prize, you can peep the latest episode of Book Stew, featuring local lensman Joe Brown and three time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Stanley Foreman.

Across from the hold section, there sits a shiny iMac. It's got a bunch of goodies. But we want to let you know the one that can benefit the most people with the least amount of time to learn: turn your home movies into DVDs with the Elgato Video Capture application.

There's a VHS player attached to the iMac. You put in the your wedding video, you child's 1st birthday party, that trip up to the White Mountains, or whatever you happen to have. Then you launch the Elgato app, go through a few screens and start to copy the movie to the computer. One word of wanring here, this copying takes place in real time. So if your movie is 15 minutes or 150 minutes, you've got to spend that amount of time at the computer.

Once the trip down memory lane is complete, you need to burn that newly copied movie to a DVD. For that we've got an external DVD drive for you to use. Right click the movie you just created from the Movies folder on the desktop and select burn. Fortunately, this happens a wee bit quicker than the first copy. Depending on the length of the movie it could take a little bit of time but it won't take at long as the VHS copy. Once the burn is done, pop out both the original VHS and the newly minted DVD and you're good to go!

It's that simple. The thing you need is time. Well, that and some headphones. It's recommended that you bring your own so that you can verify the Elgato app is capturing the audio as well as the video. If you don't have any headphones, we've got you covered. For $1.50 you can purchase a pair from us. Just visit the main desk.

We're constantly working to provide you with varied and interesting programs here at the Wilmington Memorial Library. We realize that the process by which you register for these events isn't always easy. In an effort to simplify things, we're rolling out new software called, EventKeeper. Those of you that have been using the library for a while may recognize the software, and for good reason, we used it not too long ago. The process isn't overly complex. Just the same, here are some instructions on how to not only register but also cancel a registration: